workaday

comparative more workaday · superlative most workaday · alternative obsolete workyday

1. Suitable for everyday use.

   Synonyms: everyday, general, regular, average, basic, bog-standard, common, common as bums

2. Mundane or commonplace.

   But then something started to shift—the Burning Man aesthetic was creeping into the workaday world; festival culture went mainstream.

   2021 February 6, Rachel Monroe, “Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World”, in The Atlantic

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   A retreat, my dear boys, signifies a withdrawal for a while from the cares of our life, the cares of this workaday world, in order to examine the state of our conscience, to reflect on the mysteries of holy religion and to understand better why we are here in this world."

   1916, James Joyce, chapter III, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 124

   Synonyms: garden variety, ordinary, typical, average, medial, basic, bog-standard, common

plural workadays · alternative obsolete workyday

1. archaicdialectalA workday.